Andrew Bridgen MP: An apology

On 25 September 2017 we published articles about Andrew Bridgen MP relating to recent court proceedings arising out of his divorce from his first wife.

We said that Mr Bridgen had asked the court to stop a monthly £1100 maintenance payment to his ex wife for his children.

The hearing arose because Mrs Bridgen applied to the court to extend her entitlement to spousal maintenance which the court rejected, accepting Mr Bridgen's position that she neither needed nor was entitled to further personal financial support.

Unfortunately we confused child maintenance with spousal maintenance.

We accept that Mr Bridgen has and continues to financially support his children and did not seek to end his responsibility to do so.

We apologise to Mr Bridgen for our error.

Furthermore Mr Bridgen wishes to make clear he denies an allegation that he was "moaning" about paying for Remembrance Sunday wreaths. "